There are basically two kinds of hand-made doll babies used in hoodoo -- those that are personalized by attaching things to the outside and those that are hand-stuffed. Things applied to the outside of a doll include a photograph or the hair of the target glued onto the head of the doll or a figural candle that represents the person.
Scorpion fish have several adaptations that suit a great adaptor to the ocean. The scorpion fish lives most on reefs and rocks. It adapts itself to look like rocks as a protection device against predators. Its stays mostly on the bottom of the ocean so that it won't use its energy swimming around.
Ads. Scorpion, common name for arachnid having a flat, narrow body, two lobsterlike claws, eight legs, and a segmented abdominal tail. Terminating in a venomous stinger supplied by a pair of poison glands, the tail is usually curved upward and forward over the back. About 1400 species of scorpion exist; about 40 of them occur in the United States.